Intelligencer Prospectus Offers Subscriptions and Deals
The Intelligencer announces advance and arrears subscriber offers for one year at $1.50 to January 1, 1880, with options for six or three months. It promises extensive weekly reading, county and legal news, home advertisements, and premium book giveaways for cash subscribers. The paper seeks Story County support and offers low club rates with other periodicals.
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Intelligencer
Intelligencen
Story County
Home Guide
Local County Notes and Auctions Highlight October Docket
The October term District Docket lists eighteen criminal cases. Local ads boast new stoves, chandeliers, lamps, and safes from Boyd Chapman Bingham Co. Spence Haverly expand buckwheat flour, Michigan apples arrive at Chamberlain Clark, and Mrs Reynolds receives a donation party. The issue notes Thanksgiving in two weeks and a Nevada death mourns J Br McDonsto. Frazer offers jewelry and repairs.
Medical Association Meeting in Dr Fairchilds Office
The Story County Medical Association held a meeting in Dr Fairchilds office yesterday with attendees including Dr Schooler of Sheldah and Pr Johnson of Iowa Comtre. A public sale is set for Saturday November 23 by Esther Garex administratrix of the estate of George Green at Mrs Greens residence six and one fourth miles southeast of Ames.
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Esther Garex
George Green
Green
Ames
Hyer Sisters at Boone Next Week
The Hyer Sisters, a variety troupe, perform at Boone next week on Wednesday the 20th and Thursday the 21st. Tickets are on sale now and available by writing K Huntington Boone.
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Hyer
Boone
E. K. Huntington
Examination for teachers at north side school house
Superintendent Baughman to hold a teacher examination at the north side school house in the city on Saturday November 23 for the west part of the county. He urges all who wish to be examined to arrive early.
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Baughman
Narrow Escape at Crossing Delays Passenger Bus
Tuesday night a bus carrying passengers returning from a college narrowly escaped a freight train at a crossing. After trainmen opened the crossing, the bus started but one train section rolled back and damaged the rear wheels. No injuries among passengers were reported.
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Maxwell
Boy's illness prompts call for medical aid
A southeast town sap case describes a sick boy kept from doctors by his mother who distrusts physicians. The editor urges intervention and insists a physician be summoned immediately to seek any possible change in the outcome.
Think of the Poor and the coming winter
The piece warns of a long cold winter for Iowa's poor and calls readers with ample means to give relief rather than waste wealth on luxuries. It urges charity to help those who may demand benefaction.
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Iowa
How to Make Hens Lay
Instructions from Poultry Journal advise winter egg production by removing older hens and raising pullets. Feed with hot water soaked wheat, barley buckwheat and corn, add chopped cabbages, provide clean quarters water gravel tar and charcoal, keep the house warm and avoid overcrowding for steady egg output.
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Poultry Journal
High Priced Boots
James McCoy of Colorado paid $80 for two pair of boots to settle old unpaid claims in Grand Junction. The tale shows how men away from home squander wealth, trading unpaid debts for items of clothing.
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Grand Junction
Mead-Light
Story County
James McCoy
Colo
Shall Students Vote In Iowa City Election Case
In Iowa City last spring judges rejected the ballot of F A Vanderpool a university student. Vanderpool sued for damages and a jury awarded him 300 dollars. The case goes to the supreme court likely to define student voting rights and interest grows among Ames residents. The matter notes recurring debate over Agricultural College student suffrage each year.
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Iowa City
F. A. Vanderpool
Vanderpool
Supreme Court
Ames
Agricultural College
Squashes for Feed Value and Feeding Tips
A rural exchange notes squash as a valuable stock feed with high flesh content and utility. It advises saving all waste, using specked and green squashes with meat and shorts for swine and poultry, and raw for cows, with seeds removed for milk producing animals to avoid diuretic effects. Squashes are worth about half a ton of hay in feeding value.
Nevada Notes: Corn, Cholera, Real Estate Shifts
Corn arrives rapidly and hog cholera hits town. Some real estate transfers. Business improves though funds tighten. The 1878 tax list is in the treasurer’s hands. Apple lots sold this week at low figures. Many jurors report for service at two dollars a day. District Court opened Wednesday with expectations of ten days full time, yet many cases remain on the docket.
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Nevada
Fashion Shift Sparks Debate Over Suspenders
A late Harper’s Bazaar notice urges dropping suspenders while the Hawk Eye wonders if cultured men including merchants artists and poets will abandon the foundational garment that unifies attire and instead rely on a mere section hand strap.
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Harper's Bazaar
Hawk Eye
Capitol
Grow Old Gracefully And The Vices Of Fading Youth
This editorial extols aging with grace, condemning artificial youth chasing and cosmetic excess. It contrasts the dignity of kind, lighthearted old age with the absurdities of patched up appearances and efforts to recapture youth. It argues second childhood is wiser than first and urges acceptance of time.
Death of Aggie Town After Croup Complications
The six year old Aggie Town of Acor Town died Tuesday evening after a prolonged illness. After a severe bout of croup and throat inflammation, doctors diagnosed pseudomembranous croup. A tracheotomy by Dr. Fairchild provided temporary relief, but lung inflammation proved fatal. Funeral services were held yesterday morning.
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Acor Town
Henry Town
Aggie
Lisbon
Fairchild
Pork tax prices fall to multi-decade lows in Cincinnati and Chicago
Prices paid for pork in Cincinnati and Chicago are at a new low for 28 years except for 1850 1851 and 1862. The note highlights unusually low tax prices in these markets.
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Cincinnati
Chicago
College Commencement Exercises Conclude With Twenty Graduates
Commencement at the College concluded midweek with twenty graduates listed to read papers on scientific or general topics. About half delivered papers. names include J W Whitney Linn county Belle Woods Cedar county David McKinnon Benton county JC Meredith Taylor county Ellen Rice Black Hawk county A E Griffith Story county Emma McHenry Polk county CB Martin Marshall county M M Hitchcock Jones county HL Glenn Butler county Lucy Shepard Delaware county E G Tyler Harrison county J N Muncey Buchanan county Florence E Brown Clinton county Chas P Mount Henry county Geo W Wilson Story county Richard Burke Keokuk county Ida Twitchell Dallas county J C Hainer Decatur county W K Robbins Dallas county.
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J W Whitney
Linn County
Belle Woods
Cedar County
David McKinnon
Benton County
JC Meredith
Taylor County
Ellen Rice
Black Hawk County
A E Griffith
Story County
Emma McHenry
Polk County
CB Martin
Marshall County
M M Hitchcock
Jones County
HL Glenn
Butler County
Lucy Shepard
Delaware County
E G Tyler
Harrison County
J N Muncey
Buchanan County
Florence E Brown
Clinton County
Chas P Mount
Henry County
Geo. W Wilson
Richard Burke
Keokuk County
Ida Twitchell
Dallas County
J C Hainer
Decatur County
W K Robbins
Carry Over Some of the Winter Ice for Summer Use
Farmers in Iowa can cheaply supply ice for butter-making by harvesting a winter ice crop and building a simple ice-house. A rail pen with straw and ventilation suffices, and ice has been kept until July or August, with double pen construction and straw packing aiding safety.
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Iowa
Personal Notices of Local Residents Departures and Visits
B W Child of Woodstock Vermont visiting friends in our city this past week. S J Spray civil engineer with Narrow Gauge company leaving for Indiana then Colorado to settle. H R Patrick D M M civil engineer bound for Arizona next Monday. P L Stickney heads to Minnesota for a week away. Gus Amlund of Amlund Bros notes new brick livery stable is their blacksmith shop. Wm Clark and wife return from a Wisconsin rural trip after a month or more.
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B. W. Child
Our City
Woodstock
Vermont
S. J. Spray
Indiana
Hoosier State
Spray
Colorado
H. R. Patrick
Arizona
Patrick
New Far West
P. L. Stickney
Minnesota
Gus. Amlund
Amlund Bro
Story City
Cattle Die After Feeding On Smutty Corn Field
Farmers report cows from Mr Toogood and others dying after turn into a newly brushed corn field. Post mortems show rotten paunch lining. cause unknown though stomach inflammation is suspected. Robins and Wilson note similar symptoms despite varying exposure to corn stalks. Webster Freeman comments on urgent investigation.
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Mr. Robbins
Mr. Wilson
Webster Freeman
School Board Approves Charts and Class Time
The Ames Independent District School Board authorized purchasing two sets of Monroe charts and cube blocks for primary classes and ordered payment from the contingent fund. Teachers gain Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons off to attend college events. a Northside building room is approved for a writing class, lighting candies banned. The treasurer’s year ending September 15, 1878 report is read, examined, found correct, vouchers canceled and sealed in W. D. Lucas vault by Braeton and Gurecey.
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Monroe
Northup
Board of Directors
Ames
W. D. Lucas
K. D. A. Braeton
W. M. Gurecey
Diversifying farming at home with orchards and dairy gains
The Webster City Free man urges farmers in Hamilton and Wright counties to stay, diversify with grasses clover and orchards, and build butter and cheese industries. It notes regional risks of droughts and pests, but argues for homegrown fruit grafting, hardy apple varieties, and careful orchard care to boost profits locally.
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Webster City
Freeman
Hamilton
Wright
California
Timothy
Chicago
Oldenburg
Sweeney Millinery Claim Its Hats Shine Cheaply
A period note urges readers to visit Misses Sweeney to compare stock of millinery goods. It claims the shop offers the cheapest quality and greatest variety for trimming with an artistic style. The piece invites patrons to judge if their hats are best value versus rivals.
Coal bid invites for Ames Independent School District
Bids to furnish 25 tons or more of Squaw Creek coal from Clemens or Hutchinson's bank must be received by November 25. Submit bids to Jo. Warts, Secretary.
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Independent
Ames
Squaw Creek
Clemens
Hutchinson's Bank
Jo. Warts
Dissolution of Stone & Haverly Millers at Ames IA
The firm Stone & Haverly, custom and merchant millers in Ames Iowa, dissolves by mutual consent. Mr Stone exits and P Spence buys Stone’s interest, with the firm becoming Spence & Haverly.
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P. Spence
Spence & Haverly
Stone & Haverly
Custom and Merchant Millers
Ames
Iowa
Stone
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